What is Power Platform environments

n Power Platform, environments are used to store, manage, and share your organization’s business data, apps, and flows. Each environment allows you to provision one Microsoft Dataverse database for use within that environment. Microsoft Dataverse environments allow you to manage user access, security settings, and the storage that is associated with that database.

Each environment is created under a Microsoft Azure Active Directory (Azure AD) tenant. Only users within that tenant can access its resources. An environment is also bound to a geographic location, like the United States. When you create a Microsoft Dataverse database in an environment, that database is created within datacenters in that geographic location. Any items that you create in that environment (including connections, gateways, flows that are using Power Automate, and more) are also bound to their environment’s location.

You can create more than one environment to manage solution development and data storage by setting up one environment for development, another for testing, and another for production use. The development environment is for developers to create solutions. Once the solutions are ready for testing, they’re moved to another environment called test. A separate environment ensures that everything can be tested without impacting users. Once the solution is ready, it can be moved to production. Also, you can set up an environment based on a geographical location. For example, you might set up an environment for Europe and another for Asia. Each of these environments has zero or only one instance of Microsoft Dataverse.